Gulf Times - 2018-10-16

• National flu jab campaign gets underway in Qatar
• Saudi preparing report to admit Khashoggi was killed: CNN
• High drama in the sky
• Vodafone speeds up its 5G deployment in key locations
• Qatari designers sparkle at Russian fashion show
• Militants fail to quit Syria buffer zone
• Deadly floods hit southwest France
• ‘Qatar working towards achieving food security’
• MoI seminar focuses on camping season safety procedures
• Fourth edition of Katara Prize for Arabic Novel kicks off
• CCQ hosts first Universiti­es Debate League in Arabic
• Qatar parachutin­g team soars in Australian championsh­ips
• Advisory Council Speaker attends IPU meet in Geneva
• Embassy to mark ‘Week of the Italian Language in the World’ on Oct 18
• QCDC holds training for school counsellor­s
• WCM-Q to organise medical humanities conference in Nov
• Obesity centre at HMC treats 800 patients every month
• HMC focuses on infection prevention and control
• Sidra Medicine to host paediatric orthopaedi­c symposium
• Mazaya Qatar hands over Sidra residentia­l compound to QF
• Ooredoo to manage ICT services for Doha Bank
• Barwa Bank announces draw winners of Thara’a savings account prize
• Blueair launches Joys S
• CMU-Q professor stresses significan­ce of climate change
• Briefing session held for students on ‘Education Excellence Day’ Award
• Maxus confirms participat­ion in Qatar Motor Show
• British academic charged with spying by UAE govt
• Troops shoot dead Palestinia­n in West Bank
• Damascus reopens key crossings with Jordan, annexed Golan
• Yemen conflict could push millions more to brink of famine: UN
• Protesters demand Ivory Coast vote results, police use teargas
• Hi-tech peer-to-peer networks let Nigerian farmers log on for cash in tough times
• Zimbabwe also needs a #MeToo moment, says acclaimed author
• Google launches Motorbike Mode navigation in Kenya
• Trump, Melania arrive in hurricane-hit Panhandle
• Hard sell? Met Opera seeks to lure millennial­s
• US Senator Warren, mocked by Trump as ‘Pocahontas,’ releases DNA test
• ‘Harvard discrimina­tes against Asian-Americans’
• Air Force optimistic on hurricane-hit fighter jets
• MIT backs $1bn college for artificial intelligen­ce
• Bangladesh editors protest ‘anti-press’ digital law
• Thai junta leader social media campaign backfires
• Bhutan’s not-so-happy evicted minority – the Lhotshampa
• Nepal puts royal crown on display
• Maldives leader blames defeat on ‘disappeari­ng ink’
• Opinion poll shows voters warming to Australia’s new PM
• Anwar takes oath, returns to parliament after poll victory
• Taiwan invites Pope to visit after historic China deal
• Moon to lobby for Kim on Europe tour
• Uighurs freed because they did nothing wrong: Mahathir
• Ministers under fire for backing ‘okay to be white’ vote
• 1,000mph car hits the skids
• PM May says Brexit deal still ‘achievable’
• Storm Callum batters Britain with gale-force winds, rain
• Sturgeon calls for extension of Brexit transition period
• Westminste­r MPs treated their staffers like servants, inquiry finds
• Three hurt in Cologne hostage-taking situation
• Turkey sacks 259 local officials over ties to terror groups
• Akbar files defamation case against journalist
• Tensions rise over women’s entry to Sabarimala temple
• Rahul confident Congress will win MP polls, hits out at Modi
• Amid criticism, stone laid for ‘Museum of Prime Ministers’
• Air hostess hurt after falling out of plane
• Delhi enforces emergency measures to fight pollution
• Sack Sidhu for anti-south India remarks, says BJP
• Punjab CM lays stones for five projects in Amritsar
• Attack on Mohanlal is unfair: AMMA
• Fleeing electricit­y, Mexico’s Mennonites seek new home
• Honduran migrant group grows, on way to the US
• Bolsonaro may ‘revise pre-salt oil contracts’
• Managua arrests 20, uses stun grenades to end demo
• Assange’s communicat­ions to be partly restored by Ecuador govt
• Imran holds on to slim majority after by-polls
• Artist aims for record with swing made of pencils
• More cases reported as #MeToo movement picks up in Pakistan
• Pakistan to host global students convention
• Pakistan authority to block smuggled mobile phones after October 20
• Go, Poe and Villar register for senatorial race
• Aquino faces new charge over alleged fund misuse
• Army chief assures ‘agile force to fight terrorism’
• Did Kerala’s dams exacerbate India’s once-in-century floods?
• The sirens are sounding to save the planet
• The new disappeare­d
• The martyrdom of Jamal Khashoggi
• Surgeons to use Apple Watch to monitor patients

Gulf Times - 2018-10-15

Gulf Times - 2018-10-17